This is only an API consolidation and should make things more readable Converting milliseconds to jiffies by val * HZ / 1000 is technically not wrong but msecs_to_jiffies(val) is the cleaner solution and handles corner cases correctly. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>